Nanotechnology: Legal AspectsCRC Press, 2018 M10 8 - 272 pages Existing laws have a generality that permits them to be applied to nanotechnology, but eventually it will be necessary to generate legislation targeted to issues specific to nanotechnology. As nanotechnology continues to develop into commercially viable products, legal doctrines are increasingly likely to play an important role in protecting intellectual property, facilitating financial transactions, and handling health, safety, and environmental issues. Nanotechnology: Legal Aspects provides thorough, yet comprehensible overview of different legal doctrines that are relevant to nanotechnology and explains how they may apply in the development, commercialization, and use of nano-products. The book is divided into three parts that correspond to the different phases in the lifecycle of nano-products: Protection, Regulation, and Liability. The in-depth coverage of these topics in a single source sets this work apart from others at the interface of law and nanoscience. Accessible to those without specific training in either nanotechnology or law... Nanotechnology: Legal Aspects offers a reader-friendly and affordable alternative that appeals to nano-aware audiences as well as legal professionals, students, and scientists who wish to build a greater understanding of the legal aspects of nanotechnology. |
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... reflect for a moment on the consequences (good and bad) of the computer, the automobile or the atomic bomb. Nanotechnology is designated to be the “next industrial revolution.” Although there is much hype associated with nanotechnology ...
... reflects an attempt by society to act preemptively to prevent certain results from occurring. In this way, such laws ... reflected in the way in which most regulatory restrictions are implemented. Rather than enact specific laws to ...
... reflected in the way innovations are made; the context of technology in society as a whole is different; and certain technologies may be viewed as so fundamental to basic human existence that monopolies on those technologies are viewed ...
... reflect the tension between the benefits of public disclosure with the detriments of monopolies—it is perhaps helpful to paraphrase Winston Churchill's comments about democracy as a system of government: “No one pretends that [it] is ...
... reflects the better public policy? Should nanotechnology inventions that are used in the treatment of human bodies be treated the same way as other methods of treatment, or are they different? Why? 2. While Brunelleschi's patent had a ...